Duplex combination settle blow head and baffle mechanism for glassware forming machines



July 21, 1942. w K BERTHQLD 2290,798

DUPLEX COMBINATION SETTLE BLOW HEAD AND BAFFLE MECHANISM FOR GLASSWARE FORMING MACHINES Filed Feb. 17, l94l l I I JhvBIJtaP fill Z: ary gy Patented July 21, 1942 UNl'T E f STATES PATENT orri-cE.

DUPLEX COMBINATION SETTLE BLOW HEAD AND BAFFLE MECHANISM FOR GLASS- WARE F Rl\/IIN( MACHINES- 2 Claims.

This invention relates generally to mechanisms for supporting combination settle blow headsand baffles for movements to and from operative positions at the upper ends of inverted blank molds of glassware forming machines.

An object of the present inventionisto provide a mechanism which will include a pair of similar combination settle blow heads and baffles together with simple, reliable and efficient means for supporting them for movement in unison toward and from operative positions in relation to the glass charge receiving cavities of a double cavity blank mold with which such combination settle blow heads and baffles are designed to cooperate.

A further object of the present inventionis to provide a mechanism of the character described for movably supporting the pair of com bination settle blow heads and baffles, or other suitable twin elements of a glassware machine, so that each can move vertically relative to the other sufficiently to permit the individual combination settle blow heads and baffles or other elements to seat at slightly different levels ;on

the blank mold with which they are to cooperate. Other objects and advantages of the invention will hereinafter be pointed out or will become apparent from the following description of a,

practical embodiment of the invention, as shown in the accompanying drawing, in which;

Figure l is a plan view of a duplex combination settle blow head and bafile mechanism of the present invention, a. portion of a top cover or casing of the mechanism being broken away to reveal underlying parts; and

Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the mechanism, taken substantially along the line 2-2 ofFigIl.

In the mechanism shown in the drawing, a substantially horizontal supporting arm of the mechanism is indicated at ID. This arm maybe adjustably secured at one end, as by the fastening means indicated generally at II, to a vertical main supporting shaft I2. The arrangement may be such as to permit the armllllto be secured to the shaft l2' at various vertically adjusted positions along the latter and also to permit limited angular adjustment of the arm H! with respect to the axis of the shaft l2.

The free end portion of the arm i is provided with a hollow supporting head l3which may be integral with the arm ill or may have been formed separately therefrom and secured thereto in any suitable known way. The supporting head I3 is formed to provide a pair of vertical bores I4. Liners l5 of material relatively resistant to. wear may be provided in the bores M as journals for vertically movable short vertical shafts l6.

Coupling members ll, each of which may constitute an element of a bayonet joint, are carried by the shafts I6 at the lower ends of the latter and below thesupporting head l8. These coupling members [1 may be formed as enlarged open-bottomed hollow integral portions of the shafts I 6 or may be formed separately and secured .tolthe shafts inany suitable known way. A cooperative coupling member I8 is provided, at the top or upper portion of a combination blow head .and baflle [9 for engaging the.coupling member ll in themanner usual in effecting engagement of the cooperative elementsof a bayonet joint. The combination blow head and. baffle ISthen-willbe supported .by ashaft l6.- There is one such combination blow head and bafile for each-of .the shafts l6. A'sealing washer or gasket, as indicatedat 20,- Fig. 2, maybe pro-. vided within each of the coupling members H in contact with the top surface of the combination. blow head and baffle. I9 that is held in such member l1. 7 r

The shafts Himay have their upperportions bifurcated vertically by vertical slots 2| extendingtherein from above the level of the support-' ing head l3 to the upper ends. of the shafts. The vertical space or slot 2| between the furcations of the upper end portion of each shaft I6 is adapted toreceive an end .portion 22 of. a cross bar .or equalizer 23 which islpivotedrintermediate its length on a horizontal supporting pivot pin 24., The upper surface of the cross bar 23 may have the configuration of a relative- 1y wide obtuseangle, when viewed in elevation, the apex of this top surface, indicated at 25, being directly above the axis of the pivot pin 24 when the member 23 is exactly horizontal. The cross bar 23'mayhave a thinstrip 26 of material relatively resistant to wear disposed on. its lower surface. for contact with wear-resistant slightly protruding inserts 2! in the portions of the vertical shafts 16 at the bottoms of the slots 2|.

An elongate spring, in the form of a rod or bar 28 is disposed above the cross bar 23 so as to bear at its middle portion with the apex or crest of the angular upper surface of thebar 23.. The end portions of this spring are engaged with cross pins 29 which are carried. by the slotted portions of the shafts l6 above the end Y portions 22 of the cross bar 23. As shown; the

end portions of the spring are coiled around the cross pins 29. The lowermost surfaces of these cross pins may be located below the level of the apex 25 of the cross bar 23 so that the end portions of the spring 28 will be flexed downwardly, the crest of the cross bar 25 acting as a fulcrum for the spring, which thus will exert upward pressure on the cross pins 29 and on the shafts I6. Such pressure will tend to maintain these shafts continuously against the bottom surfaces of the end portion 22 of the cross bar 23 and the cross bar horizontal. The shafts IS, in their raised positions, will support the coupling members I! at short distances below the lower surface of the supporting head l3. As shown in Fig. 2, similar spaces, indicated at 30, exist between the coupling members I! and the adjacent overlying portions of the supporting head I3.

A protective hollow hood or casing top 3| may be provided on the supporting head I3 to house the upper portions of the shafts I6 and the adjacent parts of the mechanism.

The supporting arm I may be provided with an internal passage or tube 32 in communication at its inner end with a vertical passage 33 in the main supporting shaft l2. This tube or passage 32 communicates at its opposite or outer end with a chamber or cross passage 34 in the supporting head I3. The cross passage 34 communicates with passages 35 formed in the lower [portions of the shafts I6. The passages 35 communicate through suitable apertures in the coupling members I! and I8 with a space 36 in the top of each of the combination blow head and bafiles I9 and thence with inclined blowing passages 31 in each of the latter.

The main supporting shaft I2 may be provided with supporting and operating mechanism similar to that disclosed in a patent to Ingle 1,911,119 of May 23, 1933, for supporting and operating the shaft 88 of the blow head and baille mechanism shown in Fig. 15 of that patent. Likewise, the communicating passages herein described may be supplied with blowing pressure fluid at the proper times by mechanism such as is disclosed in the aforesaid Ingle Patent 1,911,119 for supplying blowing pressure to the passage H1 in the shaft 88 of Fig. 15 of that patent. These mechanisms for supporting and operating the main shaft I2 and for supplying pressure fluid to the communicating passages in the mechanism of the present invention are preferred by me but any other suitable known mechanism may be provided in lieu of either of them.

The combination blow heads and baflles I9 may be provided with laterally extending rods 38 having their outer end portions engaged with slotted movement limiting members 39. The latter may be carried by brackets 40 and 4|, respectively, on the supporting arm II). The function of the cooperative rods 38 and members 39 is to limit the angular turning movements of the combination settle blow heads and baflies about their vertical axes and especially to prevent accidental or unintended disengagement of the combination blow heads and ballles from their holders.

From the foregoing description of the details of the illustrated practical embodiment of the invention, the operation thereof will be readily understood. In use, the main supporting shaft I2 may be given the vertically reciprocatory and oscillatory or rotary movements required to move the supporting head I3 vertically and laterally cyclically as required to dispose the members I9 in desired relationships with a pair of cavities in a molding unit of a glassware forming machine for performance of the functions of such members in the formation by the machine of :pairs of simultaneously produced articles of glassware. In the event that the surfaces of such a molding unit engaged by the combination blow heads and bafiles are identical and are located in the same horizontal plane or at-exactly the same level, and all other factors involved in the positioning of these members are the same, the lowering of the supporting head I3 to dispose the blow heads and bafile in operative positions will not cause any relative movement between the combination blow heads and baffles and their carrying head I3 or between each other. However, should diiferent vertical movements of the two members I9 be required for proper seating of these members on their respective supporting surfaces, as because of differential wear on or machining of the contact surfaces of the underlying molding unit or of the members I9, the latter will be vertically self-adjusting as to their positions on the molding unit. This is because one of them can move upward relative to the supporting head I3 to a limited extent determined by the heighth of the space 30 above the coupling member I! if required while the other is moving downward to a like extent, this differential movement being resisted by but permitted by the spring 28 in contact with the cross bar or equalizer 23. This assures accurate and desirable contact of each of the members I9 with the portion of the molding unit with which it is to be associated for performance of a function involved in the manufacture of hollow glassware and tends to reduce or minimize wear on the contacting relatively moving parts during continued service.

The glassware forming machine twin elements coupled to and carried by the coupling members I! may be blow heads only or bafiles or bottom plates only, or any other forming machine twin elements which are adapted to be moved between raised inactive and lowered active positions by mechanism of the present invention.

Various modifications of and changes in the details of the illustrative structure shown in the drawing and herein described will be obvious to those skilled in the art and are Within the purview of the invention.

I claim:

1. In a mechanism of the character described, a movable carrier including a supporting head, a pair of vertical shafts mounted in said head for axial movements relative to the head, a pair of combination bafiles and blow heads carried by said shafts at the lower ends of the latter, said shafts having vertically slotted upper end portions extending above said supporting head, cross pins fixed to the slotted upper end portions of said shaft to span the slots therein, a cross bar pivoted intermediate its length for rocking movements about a horizontal axis located midway between the slotted upper end portions of the levers, said cross bar having similar end portions projecting into the slots beneath said cross pins, and an elongate spring bearing intermediate its length on said cross bar directly above said horizontal axis and engaged at its end portions with said cross pins to flex said spring at its place of contact with the cross bar and thereby tend to maintain said cross bar horizontal and the shafts in contact at the bottoms of their slots with the end portions of said cross bar.

2. In a mechanism of the character described,

a movable carrier including a supporting head, a pair of vertical shafts mounted in said head for axial movements relative to the head, a pair of similar glassware forming machine elements carried by said shafts at the lower ends of the latter, a cross bar pivoted intermediate its length for rocking movements about a horizontal axis located midway between the vertical axial lines of said vertical shafts and so that the opposite end portions of said cross bar overlie upwardly facing portions of said vertical shafts, and spring means acting upon said cross bar and said vertical shafts to tend to maintain said cross bar horizontal and the vertical shafts raised relative to said head into contact at their said upwardly facing portions With the overlying end portions of said cross bar.

WALTER K. BERTHOLD. 

